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Period: 1940s
Three Amoco Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Amoco Oil Advertisements
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ukrainian Folk Dancer
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH PRESSMANE 1904-1967
Berestechko, Ukraine 1904-1967 (Russian / French)
Title: Ukrainian Folk Dancer, 1945
Technique: Original Oil Painting on can...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life
Located in Sheffield, MA
Benjamin Chasen
American, 1911-1962
Still Life
Oil on Canvas
Signed & dated 1941
28 by 36 in. w/frame 34 by 42 in.
Provenance:
Private Collection Greenwich CT
Le Trianon...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine Story Illustration
Signed lower left
Amos Sewell had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post.
Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal.
In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Market Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Cosmopoilitan Magazine Cover, February 1942
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Fishermen by the Boats - Maritime Seaside Coastal
By Mane Katz
Located in London, GB
MANE KATZ [Katz Emmanuel] 1894-1962
Kremenchug, Ukraine 1894-1962 Tel Aviv (Russian / Ukrainian / French / Israeli)
Title: Fishermen by the Boats, circa 1941
Techinique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 51 x 61 cm / 20.1 x 24 in
Additional Information: The work is signed "Mane Katz" on the right hand side.
This work was painted circa 1941.
Provenance:
Graham Gallery...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cashmere Bouquet Soap Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 17.75"
Signature: Unsigned
A sweet WWII-era illustration for a Cashmere Bouquet Soap camp...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions; 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Standoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post illustration, 1949
Twelve of von Schmidt's paintings hang in the Go...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"“Abbé Doret’s Secret” Original Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Abbé Doret’s Secret” by Manuel Komroff for Cosmopolitan, published February 1942.
The full caption reads: “As the gardener passed he lifted his cap twice ‘Do...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Man Leading Horse
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 23.50" x 35.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration, older man leading horse, concerned kids. "Don't sell him, Uncle Pete' Ba...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Glamorous Nude with Red Coat emerging from Curtain, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Fabry's captures the hight of elegance in his loose style. Conte crayon, watercolor on watercolor paper Signed lower right Private collection Other works by this artist:
ca. 1940 - ...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
Riverboat Scene
By Arthur De Kuh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Dimensions: 21.5" x 15.5"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Likely an illustration from a Ballantine Books publication.
21.5 x 15.25 inches (image...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Trying To Make Baby Smile, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Jack Welch
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine, February 19, 1949
The parents and grandmother are taking a picture of the baby while trying to make him smile.
Jack Welch was a tall Texan from Cleburne. He went through public school in Temple, Texas, took the W. L. Evans correspondence course in cartooning, and did a short turn at Southern Methodist University illustrating yearbooks. This was enough to launch him as a newspaper artist; he worked for papers in Texas, California, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York.
The next logical step was an advertising agency sketch man...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blue Book Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Blue Book Magazine Cover, November 1947
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine.
Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Filling the Biggest Lumber Order on Record
By Robert Riggs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1946
Medium: Oil on Paper
Dimensions: 20.25" x 18.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: September 2007: Society of Illustrators
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Remembered Anger, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story featured in The Saturday Evening Post, 1945 “Remembered Anger” by Martha Albrand
Story illustration: Man in showgirl's dres...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Missed Again, Probable Gun or Ammunition Advertisement
By William H. Foster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Probable advertisement for a gun or ammunition company.
William Harnden Foster's vibrant painting, Missed Again, captures a moment of humorous frustration with characteristic energy....
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man Flipping a Coin, Probable Interior Magazine Illustration, 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 48.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"From the Studio, Manhattan"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
A Woman Among Books with a Man in Fedora Behind Her
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
Art Deco 1940s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
At the Ski Resort, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Carlton Atherton
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 21.25" x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1945
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Women in an Interior
Located in London, GB
ALFRED ABERDAM 1894-1963
Lviv 1894-1963 Paris (Polish/French)
Title: Women in an Interior, 1948
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on panel
size: 32.5 x 26.5 cm / 12.8 x 10.4...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wigglesworth Toy Shop" - Philadelphia Whisky Ad
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's Illustration
By Saul Tepper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
This illustration appeared in Edmond War's story, Speak Only With Your Heart, McCall's magazine, 1942.
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Won the Harvard Award in 1929; Newspaper Award in 1936 and was elected to the Society of Illustrations Hall of Fame in 1980.
Saul Tepper was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, and remained a New Yorker all his life.
As a youngster, Tepper was awarded a correspondence course from the Landon School of Art. He also studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and at the Grand Central School of Art, under Harvey Dunn.
Tepper first worked as a letterer in a fashion catalog...
Category
Romantic 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chestnut Street's New Theatre
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right.
James R. Bingham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. During World War II, he put in a stint animating Army Air Force films and received an appointment as a Naval officer attached to the Office of Research and Invention.
Following the war, the heroics and adventure in his life was confined to the usual subject matter of his illustrations, such as a long series of pictures for Erle Stanley Gardner’s “Perry Mason...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Going my Way, Movie Poster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil, Pastel, and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 26.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Unsigned
original movie poster art design, for the 1944 film ...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Oil, Board
American Junior Red Cross, Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Approximate Date: 1943
Dimensions: 35.00 x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
American Junior Red Cross, Poster Illustration
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Receiving Box of Chocolates at the Post Office, Liberty Magazine
By Richard Fayerweather Babcock
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine cover: Liberty Magazine (Canada), February 24, 1940;
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Catch the Turkey, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Liberty Magazine, November 23, 1940
Little boy trying to catch a turkey.
Magazine Included
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Master of the House
By William M. Reusswig
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Chef in the kitchen cooking.
William Reusswig was a fine illustrator, and married to an equally fine one, Martha Sawyers. They traveled the world together and, in collaboration, wrote and illustrated two books about the Far East, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1961 and 1964. They worked out of a New York apartment with two studios, where each could pursue their individual assignments.
William was born in Somerville, New Jersey; he studied at Amherst College and the Art Students League in New York. He was only twenty-three when he made his first illustrations for Collier’s, and then illustrated for most national fiction magazines, including Cosmopolitan, True, Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, The Country Gentleman...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Answer the Call
Located in Miami, FL
Answer the Call, 1954
Gouache on board
31 × 24 in
78.7 × 61 cm
Joseph Binder was an Austrian-born designer whose influence permeated Europe and the United States. He applied reductiv...
Category
Bauhaus 1940s Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper
Champion Fertilizer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00"
Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog.
This illustration was...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Group of Figures
Located in London, GB
Signed with initials
Tempera on hand-made paper laid on panel
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
"Autumn Hue, Santa Fe" Miki Hayakawa, Japanese-American, New Mexico, Cubist
Located in New York, NY
Miki Hayakawa
Autumn Hue, Santa Fe, circa 1946
Titled "Autumn Hue, Palace Street" on the reverse
Oil on board
20 x 16 inches
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1899, Hayakawa and her moth...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
By Augustin Lesage
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orpheus and Eurydice, Mythological Cubist Oil Painting by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Long Island City, NY
Orpheus and Eurydice
Erle Loran, American (1905–1999)
Date: 1949
Oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Pink Garden" Gerome Kamrowski, American Surrealist 1947 Expressive Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Gerome Kamrowski
Pink Garden, 1947
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 inches
Gerome Kamrowski was born in Warren, Minnesota, on January 19, 1914. In 1932 he enrolled in ...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Tree with Pinwheel), Magical Realist Painting by Russell Lynes
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Tree with Pinwheel) Untitled (Tree with Pinwheel), Magical Realist Painting by Russell Lynes.
1947
Signed, l.l.
Oil on canvas
23 x 17 inches
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition, Cubist Oil Painting on Canvas by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
“Composition” is a oil on canvas painting by Modern artist Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980). By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the international...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstracted Cityscape, Cubist Painting on Board by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Benjamin Benno was a British-born American artist, best known for his Cubist and abstract works. This artwork is signed and dated.
Abstracted Cityscape
Benjamin Benno, American (190...
Category
Cubist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Landing/Dawn Landing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
The Landing/Dawn Landing, 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 x 30, titled verso; exhibited in the Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Trends in Southern California Art at the Foundation of Western Art, Los Angeles, from early November to December 30, 1944 (see Millier, Arthur, Trends Show Attracts Best Southland Art, The Los Angeles Times, part III, p.6, November 4, 1944, illustrated in Edward Biberman, Time and Circumstance: Forty Years of Painting by Edward Biberman, The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles (1968), p. 57, presented in its original frame
The Landing/Dawn Landing is a rare and critically acclaimed example of Edward Biberman's World War II paintings...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fallen Comrades/Interlude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Fallen Comrades/Interlude, 1949, oil on masonite, signed lower left, 35 x 56 inches; Gallery Z la...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Arthur Kill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 15 ¾ x 24 inches, Signed and titled verso on stretcher
Exhibited:
[Solo Exhibition] Cha...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Church in Trees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 13 x 9 inches, Signed lower left
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Across the Street
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) [Solo E...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Suburb (in Winter)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) Portrai...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Modern Colorful Red, Blue, Yellow, & Green Geometric Abstract Line Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract geometric drawing by early Houston. TX artist Robert Preusser. The work features bursts of lines and colors that create movement throughout the composition. Signed and date...
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Modern Early Texas Western Wilderness Landscape Scene of Two Men and a Hog
By Otis Dozier
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Western wilderness scene by early Texas artist Otis Dozier. The work features two men kneeling and cleaning a hog set against a desert landscape. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a wooden frame with a cream matting.
Visible Dimensions Without Frame: H 14 in. x W 19 in.
Artist Biography: Otis Dozier (1904-1987) was raised on a cotton farm between Forney and Mesquite, developing a love for art and nature at a young age. After his family moved into Dallas in 1920, he received his earliest art training from well-known instructor Vivian Aunspaugh. Following his 1925 graduation from Forest High School, Dozier continued his art studies at the Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis and Tom Stell. Also, during the 1920s, he accompanied his parents and three sisters on at least three automobile trips through the American West, familiarizing himself with the region that he would later depict in his art.
Six of Dozier’s works were included in 1932’s “Exhibition of Young Dallas Painters”; a number of these artists, including Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, John Douglass...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Apache Family Herding Sheep, by Allan Houser, 1945, painting, Apache, landscape
By Allan Houser
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Apache Family Herding Sheep, by Allan Houser, 1945, painting, Navajo, Apache, landscape
unique 1/1
signed front lower right
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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